Word: performable
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...UNICORN GIRL, by Caroline Glyn. A rangy, clumsy 13-year-old goes off to Girl Guide camp to find a few friends, but finds herself instead. Along the way, Novelist Glyn, only 19, points out some of the hilariously muddled drills that the Guides perform with girlish intensity...
What he does not seem to enjoy are the rounds of public relations activities he must perform. When I spoke with him last week he had just finished a Boston talk show a few days before and a New York talk show the night before. He was just finishing up a speech he would give two days later to a consumers' group. And he had to interrupt our interview for ten minutes to tape a segment for a New York radio station...
...ordeal is not quite so horrible these days as it used to be. Still, all the Yalie juniors were holding their breath somewhat as the tappers fanned out from the windowless "tombs" of Yale's secret senior societies to perform the annual laying on of hands to select new members to their august company. Elihu, Scroll & Key, and the other four recognized societies chose more than 100 third-year men. Like Dink, Olympic Swimming Champion Don Schollander, 20, who brought back four gold medals from Tokyo in 1964, was tapped for Skull & Bones. In grateful awe, he accepted...
...Instead of a single rudder set on the keel, she has two-a main steering rudder set well aft on a long stabilizing skeg, plus a narrow "tab rudder" mounted on the unusually short keel. Controlled with its own wheel in the helmsman's cockpit, the tab will perform something like the trim tabs on aircraft ailerons, which balance planes for level, effortless flight. When beating to windward, the tab should offset the boat's natural tendency to round up into the wind. On reaches and spinnaker runs, the two rudders can be linked together for maximum steering...
...despite such potent tunesmiths as Composer Jule Styne or Lyricists Adolph Green and Betty Comden. Some of the dances catch fire, notably a G.I. close-order drill done with smoking speed to syncopated shouts, and in a show that is more candied than candid, Leslie Uggams and Robert Hooks perform with unblemished, infectiously likable honesty. Apart from being lovely to look at, Uggams has a shy sly smile that burgles the theater house. She can cradle a song with her voice or rifle it toward the night sky like a tracer bullet. At 23, she is a Broadway find with...